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Monday, May 04, 2015

"Countless success stories have resulted because of Mounds View School
District’s adult education programs and their impact on families." continues Sun Focus.

The Mounds View School District’s Family Learning Program helps students
with young children complete their high school diploma with on-site
childcare and parent education intertwined into curriculum. Pictured are
student Berenice Garcia, Parent Educator Jen Kukielka, students Dyna
Thong and Jessica Geving, social studies teacher Wayne Nelsen, and
student Danny Williams. Photo:Sun Focus

In 2014, the Area Learning Center and Adult Basic Education moved to
Silver View Plaza in Mounds View to make room for the school district’s
new kindergarten center at Pike Lake Education Center in New Brighton.

Adult Basic Education offers a variety of classes and programs meant to
improve the education and quality of life for citizens of the community.
The education center offers high school diploma classes, GED testing
and preparation, transition to work or college classes, English as a
Second Language classes, the Family Learning Program, and adult
education information and documents. These classes are offered at no
cost through the Mounds View School District.

Family Learning ProgramEnglish teacher Janice Velgersdyk began teaching in 1982 and helped found the Family Learning Program (FLP) in the early 1990s.

“We did not have a program then, but we saw a great need for it,” she said.

Velgersdyk said adults who were attending early childhood classes did
not have a high school diploma, and there were no support services for
parents completing their diploma through Adult Basic Educat

“Once we were able to put a whole program together, then people could
actually come and utilize it, which was revolutionary,” she said.The FLP is for parents who have a child between six weeks and 5 years
of age. The program provides diploma preparation, free childcare and
preschool, in-district transportation, career counseling and more.
Students work toward their educational goals, and through the Early
Childhood Family Education program, they and their children participate
in activities and parent education discussion three days a week during
the school year.

Velgersdyk said that students have gone on to become therapists,
teachers, office administrators and nurses, for example, and their
children have gone on to be successful in the Mounds View School
District.

“I really love seeing families utilizing the program and successfully
completing not only the credential, but the plan to move forward for
the whole family,” she said. “That is so fun to see.”Read more... Source: Sun Focus

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